“The Trojan Women,” a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, depicts the plight of the wives and daughters of Troy, who await their fates after the Greek army has destroyed their city and slaughtered their men.An all-female production of...
The North American Dreaming Depot Pigeon, an irascible species that longs to drive buses and inhabits the picture books of best-selling author and illustrator Mo Willems, is nesting in a glass exhibition case at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript...
Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...
Republicans in the United States Senate sought this week to revive their party’s effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). President Donald Trump has pressured congressional Republicans to follow through on their much-repeated promise to “repeal...
Wesley R. Coe, professor of zoology at Yale during the early 20th century, devoted his career to studying ribbon worms — a group of mostly marine-dwelling creatures that includes more than 1,000 known species.
Identifying ribbon worms often requires...
President Trump provided a stark reminder of the stakes of nuclear politics when he warned nuclear-armed North Korea to stop making threats or “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
North Korea’s acquisition of a nuclear bomb marks a...
Americans appear profoundly unaware of the vast economic inequality that persists between black and white Americans in contemporary society, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the...
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 opened the Yale Climate Conference this week by comparing the threat of rising global temperatures to the danger posed by a rogue state acquiring nuclear weapons.
While our political leaders rightly respond...